FILM DIRECTOR

Andrzej Żuławski

1940 - 2016

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Andrzej Żuławski (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi]; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer best known for his 1981 film Possession. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Żuławski has received more than 1,236,258 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Andrzej Żuławski is the 93rd most popular film director (down from 91st in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Andrzej Żuławski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his surrealist films, such as "The Devil" (1977), "Possession" (1981), and "L'important c'est d'aimer" (1984).

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

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  • 2.55

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 93 out of 2,041. Before him are Wolfgang Petersen, Satyajit Ray, Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, and William Friedkin. After him are Robert Bresson, René Clair, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, and Zhang Yimou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 45. Before him are Dario Argento, Abdurrahman Wahid, Tabaré Vázquez, Julie Christie, Paolo Borsellino, and H. R. Giger. After him are Denis Law, Mina, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Patrick Stewart, Nancy Pelosi, and Burhanuddin Rabbani. Among people deceased in 2016, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 33. Before him are Gabriele Amorth, Alvin Toffler, Elie Wiesel, Carrie Fisher, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and Pierre Boulez. After him are Walter Scheel, Gene Wilder, John Glenn, Harper Lee, George Kennedy, and Vera Rubin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 88 out of 1,365. Before him are Anacharsis (-700), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Anton Makarenko (1888). After him are Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Ivan Franko (1856), and Irène Némirovsky (1903).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Andrzej Żuławski ranks 1. After him are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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